Tadhkirah — Page 939
1906 939 symptoms disappeared along with the migraine, except that occasionally I suffer from dizziness, so that the prophecy relating to two yellow sheets should continue to be fulfilled. The second disorder from which I have suffered for nearly twenty years is diabetes. … Even now I need to pass water about twenty times a day and sugar has been detected in the tests of urine. One day it passed through my mind that according to the physicians, diabetes brings about epiphora in the eye or erupts in the form of carbuncle, a cancerous growth, which proves fatal, whereupon I received the revelation about epiphora: That is [Arabic] Mercy has descended upon three, the eye and two other limbs; and when the thought of carbuncle passed through my mind, it was revealed [to me]: 1140 Thus Allah has, for a long time, safeguarded me against these calamities. [All praise belongs to Allah]. [ H aq iq atu l -Wa hi, pp. 363–364, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 22, pp. 376–377] 1140 [Arabic] Peace be on you. [Publishers]